Basic Motors is shedding 500 employees at a manufacturing facility in Canada due to weak demand for its all-electric BrightDrop vans, in response to CNBC.
GM advised CNBC that the cuts weren’t associated to the continued commerce battle being waged by President Donald Trump. The corporate is chopping one of many two shifts on the CAMI plant in Ontario, and can idle the ability for 20 weeks starting in Could.
The cuts are the latest twist in BrightDrop’s brief however considerably tumultuous historical past. It created BrightDrop as a separate entity inside GM in 2021, however absorbed it in 2023. In 2024 BrightDrop’s vans suffered a recall after a couple of battery fires. Later final 12 months, GM moved BrightDrop underneath the Chevy model.
